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The legal battle continues between Alan Thicke’s sons, widow

The death of actor Alan Thicke last year was unfortunately more than just another surprising celebrity passing. It has sparked a family feud of sorts. Thicke’s sons, Brennan and Robin are one side, and his wife, Tanya, is on the other. Both sides are embroiled in a dispute over how Thicke’s estate should be divided. …

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Caring for a special needs child, now and after you’re gone

Loving parents in Massachusetts and elsewhere worry about their children with physical and/or mental disabilities, and understandably so. Caregivers wish they could live forever, standing resolutely beside their loved ones and helping them face and conquer every challenge. That is simply not meant to be the case, of course. Parents do ultimately pass, most often …

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Focus on elder law: broader, more nuanced than many people think

Although elder law considerations in estate planning are many and varied, a prevailing and widely held view concerning the topic has long stressed that administration in this discrete area centers almost solely on safeguarding elderly loved ones from financial ruin in old age, mostly due to high medical costs. Indeed, one recent media focus on …

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Admonitory planning stories: no dearth of these frightful tales

Some of the stories related in a recent estate planning piece might reasonably be termed as “outlier” tales stressing truly dire ramifications that can ensue when a planner fails to take some requisite action that promotes certainty regarding a future outcome. Alternatively, they might be denoted as “the worst that could happen” tales. Here’s one, …

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Focus: estate planning for truly high-asset families

“Wealth doesn’t come with a handbook.” So says a multimillionaire business principal who, like many similarly wealthy individuals, duly stresses about the future of his children. Although that concern might seem a bit misplaced — even incongruous — for well-heeled business tycoons and families in Massachusetts and across the country, it is decidedly the case …

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Like other important things, estate plan needs periodic updating

It’s laudable, of course, if you have already expended the necessary time, effort and well-considered thought necessary to craft a soundly tailored and forward-thinking estate plan to provide for your family, lawfully avoid taxes, fund your favorite charity, establish a personal legacy and so forth. Undoubtedly, you felt a sense of accomplishment and relief in …

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No heirs or living spouse: still a need for sound estate planning

Some individuals in Massachusetts and elsewhere across the country likely feel sometimes as though they are standing outside a bubble denoted “estate planning and administration” and contemplating others within it who are timely and rationally taking care of business in that important realm while they are not. Indeed, that feeling of uncertainty and — for …

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Guardianships: What is involved regarding this key family law topic?

A sobering responsibility. A serious undertaking. Or, as denoted in an online overview of the subject matter, “an important decision not to be taken lightly.” Those and similar depictions are liberally interspersed in any well-considered report or essay discussing family law guardianships, and for manifestly evident reasons. For starters, a guardianship comes into play only …

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